Lesson 54 Tuesday 11th February 2014

This lesson again I started with the Oasis song “The Importance of Being Idle”.

I started off with the intro.

  

Again my changes from chords are very slow and it does not flow. My teacher made me slow the pace. When I did that if gave me a chance to change the chords at a more comfortable pace and not sound so bad.

I then went through the Rhythm of the song.

I had been practicing this all week but probably because I was rushing through it I had adopted a slightly different rhythm. I obviously have not got my ear in on the rhythm so I needed to take a bit of time getting it right.

I played through the rhythm a few times. My main problem was that I was not getting the chord B7 correct and the change to E was very slow. We practiced a while again slowing down the speed so that I am playing more smoothly.

We then had a look at the chorus.

This is played in two bar chords.

Playing these chords is hard enough but I have to sort of mute the sound by taking my fingers off slightly then putting them back down again to play the next strum. This is proving very difficult.

I finally looked at the songs riff part that I had practiced.

At first I was one string too high and it sounded very strange. Once I was playing on the correct strings the tune sounded correct but I need to get the sort of bounce that you hear in the song.

Plenty of parts to practice.